Bradford rockers the Dead Celebs hope to have their debut album out by the spring.

The four-piece are signing a deal with a new record label called Alienated and will go into the studio in January.

The company aims to specialise in releasing albums on the Internet as well as on CD, and has already signed up four new bands.

Dead Celebs vocalist and guitarist Pete Mastrantuono admitted he was a technophobe - but was still delighted to have landed a recording deal.

"I'm totally computer illiterate. I've never even seen a website before but I'm just pleased to get the music out there," he said.

Pete, who is joined in the Dead Celebs line-up by his brother Paul on drums, Kurt Harper on bass and Warren Fyffe on guitar and vocals, said the most difficult thing had been choosing which of the 35 possible songs should go on the album.

Recording will take place at Potz 'n' Panz in Bowling Old Lane, and the album, due out in March or April, has the bizarre working title of The Phantasmagorical, Superlicious and Gargantuan Adventures of Screaming Skull, Destruction Boy and the New Unborn Wonder.

Nobody Cares could be released as a single and the Dead Celebs hope to line up a tour to coincide with the album.

In the meantime, the band have a headline gig tomorrow at Rio's in Woodhead Road, Bradford. And on November 28, they will also be playing at Liverpool's famous Cavern Club. Keighley band The Undecided will also be on the bill and a coach has been organised to take fans to the venue.

"I will die a happy man having played there. I'm not even bothered if there's no-one there to see us apart from one dead dog," said Pete, who saw another of his musical ambitions fulfilled when Dead Celebs recorded at Abbey Road studios in London.

The band were formed from the ashes of Bradford's Mr Meana, who started as an out-and-out heavy metal act.

But their own self-financed CD single You've Created A Monster was a clear indication that the new group were aiming for a far more sophisticated style.

"We're just learning how to write songs now. It's got more challenging, the stuff we're doing, where you've got cellos and string sections and things," said Pete.

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